Former FBI Director James Comey
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“I don’t know, he should at least consider that,” Comey said during an interview with BBC Newsnight. “Donald Trump, he is not a genius, but he may find that if he accepts forgiveness, it is an omission of guilt, the United States Supreme Court said, so I don’t know if he would accept forgiveness.”
Comey said that a possible forgiveness from Biden would help “as part of the country’s healing and taking us to a place where we can focus on the things that will be important in the next four years”.
“I think Joe Biden
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“Donald Trump belongs in prison.”
Former FBI Director @Comey says that although he “obviously believes” that the president should be in prison, he doesn’t think “pursuing this is in the best interests of the American people”, adding that Joe Biden should “consider” forgiving Donald Trump#Newsnight pic.twitter.com/RUghKyq5nW
– BBC Newsnight (@BBCNewsnight) January 13, 2021
Legal experts said it could be difficult to accuse Trump of a crime related to last week’s deadly Capitol riot by his supporters, which led to the president’s second impeachment on Wednesday. But the president and his company may face scrutiny for possible financial crimes in the Southern District of New York, they noted.
Earlier this week, Comey, whom Trump fired, said it would be “the biggest punishment he could imagine” for politicians and the media to ignore Trump after he leaves office.
Trump “belongs in prison,” Comey told the BBC, but he believes that prosecuting a former president is “not in the interest of the entire nation”.
“I think the most sensible decision would be not to pursue it,” he added. “But whatever you do, the next president, Joe Biden, must explain to the American people. Be transparent about why you are doing what you are doing.”
Trump repeatedly attacked Comey and other former intelligence officials and former law enforcement officials during their four years in office, claiming that they were part of a so-called deep state that sought to undermine his 2016 presidential campaign and ended up triggering Robert Mueller
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Comey has criticized Trump in recent weeks for selling unproven theories about electoral fraud and lying about the 2020 election being “stolen” from him.
“You cannot yell at people to convince them that they have been cheated. One of the most difficult things in the world is for a victim of fraud, of lies, to admit that they have been cheated,” Comey said this week during an interview with “Today “from NBC. “I worked in criminal cases where the victims of a fraud would come to support the fraudster after he pleaded guilty. It’s not about yelling at them. It’s about persuading them, instigating them and letting them out of that fog of lies. ”